Thursday, October 3, 2013

Fairytale: Prologue

Some weeks ago, Emily turned nine.

It's just ridiculous, how fast children grow up. I mean, one moment they're drooling all over the fronts of their onesies and the next they're creating wish lists on amazon for their birthdays. Before I know it, my children will be graduating from college and sewing their wedding dresses and I'll still not have made a dent in all the unsewn toys and clothes I've planned for them. Someone has to find a way to slow time down! Grrrr!

Anyway, we had a birthday party.

After discussing and discarding no fewer than

ten different themes, I might add.

Finally, Emily decided on this one. Fairytales, she wanted.

"What - like princesses and stuff?" I asked, incredulous. Hasn't this theme been done to death? Sooo disappointing.

But, no, she wanted fairytales. Because she loves books and clues and adventures and heroines and danger and suspense and riddles and quests and daring rescues and happy endings.

"No princesses and dress-up and ball gowns and royal weddings and all that jazz?"

Hello and Welcome!

I am a gratefully unemployed mom of three girls, all of whom are growing up much too soon! I like piles of warm, fresh laundry, the smell of salt air near the beach where I used to live, making lists, anything round (like heads) and the quiet evenings sitting with the man of the house after the kids are in bed.

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